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| I am an office worker and I want to supplement my income by starting a small venture into hydroponics in Quezon City, Philippines. I however, can't decide what to plant.
what are the crops that can be grown hydoponically that will generate the highest revenue and profit per square meter? And also be manageable for a novice hydroponics farmer? |
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| The first question of commercial hydroponics is : What is there a market for? It's one thing to grow it, another is to sell it. Typical hydroponic crops: Lettuces Mesclun Mixes Herbs Tomatoes Cucumbers Flowers In your climate, where I suspect cheap produce is available year-round, you will need to find a niche that is looking for and willing to pay a premium price for premium products. Up-scale hotels and cruise ships come to mind. Also look for products which w=you can sell which are not being produced by anyone locally, for example is anybody producing arugula? Is there an expatriate community of Americans and Europeans who will pay a premium for knowing where and how their food is produced? There are growers in SE Asia supplying these type of communities through a weekly subscription. The unit of measure you are looking to evaluate when you do your market research is $/sq. ft./month. You will need to calculate your yield in pounds per square foot per month (including seedling growout time). Then calculate the price you can sell it for in your market. This way you can estimate which crop is better for you. For example, when I started my latest greenhouse I had a choice of growing basil or growing chives. The price for chives was 50% higher than the price I could get for basil. But after you figure in a 12-week growout and 4 weeks between harvests vs. 6 weeks growout and 2 weeks between harvests, basil turned out to be the more profitable crop. |
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| I recently found this site for hydroponic lettuce & tomato budget analysis & thought it might be of interest to you. It provides spreadsheets in Excel format. Read the information on macro’s prior to opening them. http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/hydroponics/Economics/economics.htm |
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| Shiso would be a good crop to grow for the shushi trade. I did not see anyone growing it all the times I've been there. You will need lights above the plants. Long days keep it vegetative and short days will cause it to flower and die off. Loapopo |
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| You will also have to consider the amount of time you can put in your project. If you will be planting in Quezon City it will be too hot to grow lettuce and you will need a big area to be able to produce a profitable volume. Try growing cherry tomatoes (ill even buy them from you) or different kinds of herbs. Herbs fetch much much higher prices than lettuce. |
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- Posted by primo bien(primo_yen@yahoo.com) onTue, Jul 26, 11 at 5:43
| i want to ask how much capital is needed in starting hydroponics. I live in quezon province we have one hectares of land.I want to maximize the use of our land by setting hydroponics farm. I hope you can give me an estimation of how much capital im going to need. |
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| primo Between a couple hundred dollars, and a couple million dollars. Greatly depending on all the variables involved, like crop, greenhouse (if one is even used), type of system, how the system is built, if you need any other buildings. Theirs even all the variables of doing business like business licenses, delivery trucks, insurance, computers to keep and make invoices, cash registers etc. etc. etc. etc. Start-up for a small simple system to grow some produce for a local farmers market could be as low as a couple hundred dollars, especially if you have some materials already. Start up for a large elaborate multi greenhouse operation with computer controlled climate control's, employees, building for produce sales and/or storage, distribution trucks etc. etc. etc. etc. could run over a million dollars. You can also do anything in-between. |
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| For hydrononics need in Philippine , we are based in Philippine visit us at www.triplejmanufacturing.com |
Here is a link that might be useful: Triple J Manufacturing
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